The Iranian regime’s export of terrorism and interventions aimed to provoke schisms in Afghanistan has been faced with opposition by the country’s officials and media.
Following the clerical regime’s increasing level of meddling in Afghanistan, an advisor for Afghanistan’s Information Ministry, Najibollah Menli, said, “There is evidence indicating that the source of some of the weapons used by the Taliban is the Iranian regime.”
Ahmad Behzad, a member of Afghanistan’s national assembly from the Herat province, has also said, “Whenever the Iranian regime’s relations with Western powers over the nuclear issue or Middle East disputes sour, the regime tries to exploit the Afghan situation and uses it as a leverage to promote its objectives in other regions.”
The Iranian regime’s meddling in Afghanistan is not restricted to arms shipments. Afghanistan’s Minister of Intelligence and Culture, Abdolkarim Khorram, has reported the discovery of a container of books sent by the regime in order to create divisions among various religious followers and ethnicities in the Nimrouz province, southwestern Afghanistan. He added that the investigations are being conducted by his ministry in this regard with the help of a government delegation.
Also in relation to book shipments, another member of the national assembly, Mohammad-Anvar Moradi, said: By sending such books, the Iranian regime tries to incite ethnic and religious extremism in the country. The Iranian regime propagates its own culture in the Nimrouz province through its TV programs, and it is imperative for the Ministry of Intelligence and Culture to take serious steps to prevent such measures.
Recently, the clerical regime sent one of the members of its “Supreme Revolutionary Council on Culture” to Afghanistan. This individual, identified as Rahim Pour-Azghadi, faced a hard-hitting reception in view of the regime’s meddling in Afghanistan.
Pour-Azghadi is one of the torturers and official theoreticians of the regime’s policy of export of terrorism and fundamentalism. He visited Afghanistan to take part in a conference entitled “The Media’s Responsibility.” Regarding the reactions faced by this agent of the Iranian regime in Afghanistan, two examples are worthy to mention.
The Arman Melli (‘National Ideal’) daily, published in Kabul, wrote in this regard that, “This Iranian official comes from a country with a dark and restricted atmosphere for the media. Those who write outside the permitted boundaries of the ruling regime are taken to the gallows. So, the official from such a country has come to Kabul. He did not mention the treatment of Afghans by Iranians which is worse that treating an animal. The Afghan refugee camps in Iran represent a dark stain on the Iranian regime’s record. … The models presented by this official to Afghans bear no similarities with the values of the Afghan people. Pour-Azghadi is a master of deception and he knows full well that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is behind Afghanistan’s civil war, sending weapons to fan the flames of this conflict. He wants to erase the blood stains from his hands and those of his regime. … He wants to dress Afghanistan’s media with the Iranian regime’s desired attire. This model stinks of blood. … The Iranian regime fans the flames of religious conflicts and the extremism of Shiites and Sunnis in Afghanistan.”
Another daily in Kabul, Hashte Sobh (‘8 AM’), also expressed anger over the appearance of the mullahs’ agent, writing, “The Iranian regime official’s words are unacceptable for the people of Afghanistan. … In Iran, in the course of 48 hours, 18 newspapers were banned and nearly 100 journalists became unemployed. What Pour-Azghadi means when referring to the media’s responsibility is acceptance of the establishment of dictatorship.”
The clerical regime and its extraterritorial terrorist Qods Force are involved in most of the terrorist acts in Afghanistan.
----Reza Shafa is an expert on the Iranian regime's Intelligence networks, both in Iran and abroad. He has done extensive research on Iranian Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS) also known as VEVAK, Intelligence Office of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Qods Force among others. Currently he is a contributor to NCRI website.
